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Sid, thanks to my Ass-Burgers, I can spit this out like Monica did with Slick Willie's (REDACTED) "Westfal-Larsen is a shipping conglomerate owning 24 open hatch ships and 5 chemical tankers based in Bergen Norway. The company was founded by Hans Westfal-Larsen in 1905. Westfall-Larsen provides Marine transportation services as ship owners, technical and commercial managers, within the segments of Chemical And Product Tankers, and open hatch dry cargo vessels. The Westfall-Larsen group is also involved in real estate, trade, technology, and venture capital products*" Basically, they're taking trees from British Columbia to be turned into cheap furniture by 12 year olds in a Nanjing sweat shop Then bringing them back to be sold in a Seattle Walmart(ever shop at one?)

OK, I got this from Wikipedia/Westfall Larsen website, but I changed a few words so its not Plagearizing

Actually, lady and gentleman, I often look up the info on ships that pass by. There are sites that give specific info about any ship, including size, mission, when and where built, and where it is at any time.

As I wrote that line about not knowing who the guys were, I wondered if anyone would comment on it. Sneaky way to get comments, eh?

Excellent comment. I thought we're supposed to defer in everything to the wealthy.

Here's the secret, though. Bought the house 30 years ago, when I had no money at all, just starting out here, but optimistic. Back then, it was affordable. Kept it painted, roofed, lawn mowed.

And my occasional postings like this are meant to show that even as our country descends further and further into theocratic, heartless, and fact-free teabaggerism, I have much for which to be grateful, and to consider myself lucky.

For The Sake of My Sanity

Some will know me from my other blog, "Surgeonsblog." Of late I've given over to frothing at the mouth as the world descends into stupidity, and our politics and our citizens seem, in numbers enough to be meaningful, unable to see it. So for now I'm leaving surgery writing behind, if for no other reason than to defuse and diffuse my unrelenting sense of doom, and with no expectation of making a difference. These are things that, to me, are obvious. Except that, apparently, they aren't.

RWS™

RWS™: For those who drop by here in the middle, and wonder what it means: it's my shorthand for Right Wing Screamers, which includes such a long list it's tiresome to type it. (I distinguish these blowhards from thoughtful conservatives, of whom I sort of take it on faith that there must still be some.) You know who I mean: Palin, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Breitbart (RIP), Malkin, Savage, Levin, Ingraham, Doocey (more of a drooler than a screamer), Hewitt, Goldberg, Gingrich, Kristol, Scarborough (+/-), Bachmann, Inhofe, Bond, Broun, Boehner, Kelley, Santorum, Cain. To name but a few. Behold them in their unrepentant disregard for reality: the RWS™